Abstract
When parents scold their children, they give various types of reproaching utterances to them.The purposes of this study were to find out the types of scolding utterances and to see whether same types of information were contained in them. At least1670scolding utterances of parents were collected from306fifth and sixth graders and 302 undergraduates, and were classified into 14 categories. Direct utterances such as ‘do this’ or ‘do not do that’ made about one third of the total data while the others were made of many types of indirect utterances (Study1).The analysis of the verbal reactions of the recipients showed that reactions depended on types of scolding utterances (Study2).It was suggested that vaious types of scolding utterances contained different types of information.
